| In that moment of surprise, the self-possession of Heyward did not desert him. |
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| Heyward abandoned every hope, with the belief it was the signal that they were discovered. |
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| Uncas partly raised his body, and offered his hand to the grasp of Heyward. |
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| Heyward saw, by the manner of the scout, that altercation would be useless. |
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| Heyward was not slow to confirm an opinion that was so favorable to his own pretensions. |
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| Heyward took the gourd, and after swallowing a little of the water, threw it aside with grimaces of discontent. |
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| This abstinence, so remarkable in an Indian, when he possessed the means of satisfying hunger, at length attracted the notice of Heyward. |
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| Heyward threw himself between the sisters and the foremost, whom he grappled with a desperate strength that for a moment checked his violence. |
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| Le Renard had listened gravely as Heyward slowly proceeded in this subtle speech. |
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| Heyward threw himself among the combatants, and imitating the necessary caution of his companions, he made quick discharges with his own rifle. |
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| There was something so commanding in the distress of the old man, that Heyward did not dare to venture a syllable of consolation. |
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| As they held their silent way along the margin of the pond, again Heyward and the scout stole furtive glances at its appalling dreariness. |
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| The clothes of Heyward, which rendered him peculiarly conspicuous, were repeatedly cut, and once blood was drawn from a slight wound in his arm. |
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| Are such specters frequent in the woods, Heyward, or is this sight an especial entertainment ordered on our behalf? |
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| Heyward ventured to hurl the tomahawk he had seized, too ardent to await the moment of closing. |
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| Heyward had watched the whole procedure, on the part of Hawkeye, with breathless interest. |
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| They are a pair of excellent girls, Heyward, and such as any one may boast of. |
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| Major Heyward, you are yourself born at the south, where these unfortunate beings are considered of a race inferior to your own. |
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| When the eyes of Heyward first met those of his recent guide, he turned them away in horror at the sinister though calm look he encountered. |
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| In the meantime, Heyward had been pressed in a more deadly struggle. |
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| Major Heyward was mistaken only in suffering his youthful and generous pride to suppress his active watchfulness. |
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| Though astounded, at first, by the uproar, Heyward was soon enabled to find its solution by the scene that followed. |
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| The latter approached her bedside, which was surrounded by females, in the center of whom Heyward was surprised to find his missing friend David. |
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| Heyward possessed some knowledge of the mummery practised among the Indians, in the cases of such supposed visitations. |
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| The axe cleaved the air in front of Heyward, and cutting some of the flowing ringlets of Alice, quivered in the tree above her head. |
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| Heyward took with him a blazing knot, which threw a dim light through the narrow vista of their new apartment. |
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| Nay, throw aside that frown, Heyward, and in pity to my longing ears, suffer him to journey in our train. |
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| Heyward prepared to comply, though with strong disgust at the nature of the office he was compelled to execute. |
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| Heyward lifted his head from the cover, and beheld what he justly considered a prodigy of rashness and skill. |
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| Heyward paused, for he knew not how to construe the remarkable expression that gleamed across the swarthy features of the attentive Indian. |
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| Heyward gladly obeyed a summons that took them from a spot where, each instant, he felt his self-control was about to desert him. |
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| The sisters rode in his rear, with Heyward at their side, while the Indians flanked the party, and brought up the close of the march, with a caution that seemed never to tire. |
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| Heyward withdrew to the rampart, too uneasy and too little accustomed to the warfare of the woods to remain at ease under the possibility of such insidious attacks. |
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| Will you not speak to him, Major Heyward, that I may hear his tones? |
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| Heyward was also nigh, supporting himself against a tree, and endeavoring to keep down those sudden risings of sorrow that it required his utmost manhood to subdue. |
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| Heyward had too recently witnessed a frightful instance of the prompt punishments of the people into whose hands he had fallen to hazard an exposure by any officious boldness. |
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| There were now a few minutes of fearful stillness, during which Heyward well knew that the savages conducted their search with greater vigilance and method. |
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| And to marry whom, then, did you wish my consent, Major Heyward? |
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| At a little distance, Heyward discovered, and contemplated with tender emotion, the small bower under which he was fain to believe that Cora and Alice had reposed. |
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| The frown which had gathered around the handsome, open, and manly brow of Heyward, gradually relaxed, and his lips curled into a slight smile, as he regarded the stranger. |
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| He then signed to Heyward to assist the sisters into the saddles, for he seldom deigned to use the English tongue, unless urged by some motive of more than usual moment. |
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| Thence he went to the side of the motherly animal, and spending a minute in a fruitless inquiry into the character of her rider, he shook his head and returned to Heyward. |
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| In such circumstances, common prudence dictated that Heyward and his companions should imitate a caution that proceeded from so intelligent a source. |
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| Heyward was far from regretting that his mummeries were to be performed on one who was much too ill to take an interest in their failure or success. |
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| Heyward assisted the sisters to descend, and in a few minutes they were all far down a mountain whose sides they had climbed with so much toil and pain. |
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| Heyward smiled to himself at the idea of a competition with the scout, though he determined to persevere in the deception, until apprised of the real designs of Magua. |
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| The suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild cries of the pursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive surprise. |
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| On the other hand, Heyward began to throw sundry inducements in the way of the French general, to betray the discoveries he had made through the intercepted letter. |
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| Thus unequivocally called on to exercise the functions of his assumed character, Heyward was apprehensive that the smallest delay might prove dangerous. |
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| You hear, Heyward, and delicacy at least should urge you to retire. |
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| Close at their side stood Heyward, with an interest in both, that, at such a moment of intense uncertainty, scarcely knew a preponderance in favor of her whom he most loved. |
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